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Facebook rolls out Timeline, intros it to mobile

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Back in September, Facebook introduced Timeline, a reinvigorated interface for user profiles that features a better layout, and showcases the users’ histories of activities. It’s not a mere account for all the activities you’ve done on the social networking giant. Instead, the timeline begins with your birth as it uses the information you provided during sign-up—in addition to all the status updates and Facebook activities you’ve taken part of.

 

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Social media giant introduces Twitter Stories

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Twitter shares interesting anecdotes and tweets with Twitter Stories

Image from the Twitter Stories page

A whole lot of us were already on Twitter when celebrities like Oprah and Ashton Kutcher made the social media messaging platform explode. And then came the massive influx of users from the more mainstream spectrum of the Interwebs, signing up to find out what new book the queen of talk was recommending for her book club, and watched as the comedian won the race to get a million followers against CNN.

 

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Weekly Link Round Up – 10-28-11

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Paranormal Activity 3 Breaks Box Office Records…Thanks to Twitter? (SocialTimes.com)

Last week’s highest grossing horror movie of all time, ‘Paranormal Activity 3′, earned a whopping $54 million at the box office thanks to Twitter, analysts say. The social networking and microblogging site was said to have played an important role in building major buzz for this season’s scariest movie.

Tricks and Treats in Social Media: 3 Awesome Halloween Campaigns (Likeable.com)

Three companies make the most out of the much loved holiday by expressing endless creativity and ingenuity through zombies, spooky costumes, and a fearsome tale of freakish angry birds and a golden egg.

10 Scariest Enterprise Social Networking Mistakes (InformationWeek.com)
Scary things can happen on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, even if it’s not Halloween. Debra Donston-Miller shares with us some helpful tips on avoiding frightening social networking mistakes all year round.

Just In Time for Halloween, Take this Lollipop – A Frightening Look Into the Dangers of Facebook Stalkers (SocialMediaToday.com)

Children aren’t the only ones who have to be careful about enjoying too much candy on Halloween. Taking a lollipop from a new interactive website shows trusting adults a startling account of what it’s like to be stalked on Facebook.

4 Things Social Media Marketers Can Learn from Halloween (Marqui.com)

Social media marketers can learn a thing or two about trick or treating, and apply certain strategies to their campaigns. Find out the relationship between unwanted Halloween treats and ‘freebies’, spooky decorations and creating a following, as well as scary costumes and consumer preferences in this engaging post.

Weekly Link Round Up – 10-07-11

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Seven Lessons We’ve Learned from Steve Jobs (SocialMediaExplorer.com)

While most people chose to play it safe, one man had the courage to ignore the critics and follow his heart and intuition. Mark Ivey pays tribute to Steve Jobs and shares lessons he’s learned from the most innovative entrepreneur of this generation.

The End of Change. The End of Unusual (TwistImage.com)

All brands aspire to earn money, achieve greatness, and to be loved by its consumers. Digital marketing visionary Mitch Joel explains why it’s important for companies to adapt and evolve in this world’s constantly changing landscape.

The Time We’re Losing (ChrisBrogan.com)

Chris Brogan writes from the heart and explains in this inspiring essay the importance of time. Like the visionary and creative genius Steve Jobs, he urges us to go after our dreams and to realize that our time is now.

Why Being Wrong is Right for Business (JeffKorhan.com)

Jeff Korhan explains the importance of asking the right questions, exposing your vulnerabilities to give yourself a new perspective on things, and not being right all the time and ultimately winning the trust of your customers.

A Lesson in Smelling Roses at the Speed of Social Media (DannyBrown.me)

The goal of the social media experience is to build bridges and enhance intimacy between people. By stimulating our senses with the speed of social media, we end up destroying our ability to truly sit down and listen to one another.

Twitter unveils Web analytics tool

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Twitter as a social media marketing tool

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As one of the massively popular online marketing and social media messaging services today, Twitter has become one of the primary utilities brand managers are relying on. The mileage it can offer companies and their marketing campaigns is highly regarded in its ability to enrich follower engagements, and both content and link distribution strategies. And while marketers and third party developers have created their own ways of measuring brand traction along the messaging service’s pathways, Twitter itself has yet to actually create a publicly available system for quantifying the amount of tweet-hinged traffic sites are receiving.

 

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New features on the Twitter front

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Twitter has unveiled three new features in the past two days, aimed to improve user experience by providing more interesting information and accessibility to its users. Yesterday, popular social media messaging giant introduced new additions to the basic user profile’s interface with two tabs that offer a wee bit more insight into your usage of Twitter and how your tweets are accepted online. And today, a rather subtle change appeared on the site, one that improves efficiency.

 

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Twitter improves search, unveils upcoming multimedia features

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Microblogging giant Twitter seems to really be on a serious tech update, ramping up its services to enhance both its grocery list of features, and to further augment user experience. Just yesterday, the company introduced the Follow Button for easily subscribing to Twitter feeds of associated @usernames on the 50 initial partner sites. Today, Twitter announces two major additions to its growing stable of features: improved search, and multimedia capabilities.

 

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